Make space for joy amid the messiness of life
Inside: Strip away all the clutter and noise to make space for more midlife joy. Consider starting with these 30 things! Although midlife brings with it new challenges, it’s also true that at least for many, happiness rises in midlife. There are various reasons for this but I believe a few reasons include that we’re …
Inside: Simple rhythms anchor us through the seasons of our life. These are some of the ways I’ve used rhythm and ritual to support me through a season of grief, liminal space, and learning to live fully again. Sensitive content warning: child loss, grief We’re nearing three years since my oldest child died and I’ve …
Inside: Diversity is beautiful and needed. When each of us honours our wiring and operates in our strengths we form a beautiful whole. Have fun with this short quiz and identify which of these 5 plants or fungi most feel like you! I like messy people. Colourful, honest, owning the truth of who they are …
Inside: Journey to Freedom – there’s an inextricable connection between truth-telling and unshackled living. We cannot know freedom without being real. And freedom is, largely (NOT solely), an inside job. This post includes a referral link. My intuition or inner voice is telling me to allow this season of my life to be less about to-do’s …
Inside: I felt a call to come home to myself. An invitation to stop running, trying to belong or find my place in the world, permission to remember and own the full, messy, glorious truth of who I am. Not who I used to be or how I wished I could be. I choose to …
Inside: There is freedom in a relationship with healthy boundaries. Boundaries are not a punishment but a kindness to you and those you love. The word boundaries sometimes has a negative connotation. There seems to be an idea that only stern or cold people are good at setting boundaries. Or that boundaries only need to …
Inside: How to build boundaries with yourself that honour your wiring and help you live a fulfilling and meaningful life that feels true to who you are and what you want. This post includes referral links. Boundaries are necessary for all relationships – work, kids, friends, and with ourselves. Building and honoring brave boundaries is …
Inside: Media offers us quick fixes, spiritual gurus sell us bypassing, our own fear nature beckons us to hide under the covers or jump on the next shiny bandwagon; all feel preferable to slow, soul-stretching, deep work. But sustainable growth takes time. Don’t rush who you’re becoming. In the summer each year I listen inward …
Inside: You don’t have to hunt for joy, manufacture it, or figure out how to lead a stress-free “perfect” life. You can ALLOW joy to live alongside whatever else you’re experiencing. You can WELCOME it into the messiness of your life in every season. You can learn to expand your capacity for joy. You don’t have …
Inside: This is real life – joy and pain, beauty and suffering, uncertainty and delight, messily woven together to form a beautiful whole. TW: grief, child loss, suicide loss I’ve spent this weekend in Calgary, AB, with my friend Kathy Escobar who flew in from Colorado so that we could hug and talk for hours, …
Inside: If you feel overwhelmed by life, one of the kindest and wisest things you can do is to gift yourself an abundance of rest. This post includes amazon referral links. In a culture that idolizes doing more, acquiring more, being more, and that conditions us to believe that our worth is tied to our …
Handcraft a hope map for a brave and beautiful life. Growth or becoming our most honest and integrated selves is more circular than linear (or more like a spiral). Each new season of life invites us to journey deeper, to stay open to joyful possibility and learn to sit with discomfort and uncertainty, to build …
